{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1889 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 29 June 1889 |Stadium = Stamford Bridge (stadium) |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 14 |Previous = 1888 |Next = 1890 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1889 AAA Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 29 June 1889 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England in front of 2,800 spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18890701/017/0003 |title=Amateur Athletic Association |work=London Evening Standard |date=1 July 1889 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18890701/020/0003 |title=Athletics |work=Morning Post |date=1 July 1889 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/18890701/070/0004 |title=Amateur Championships Sports |work=Sporting Life |date=1 July 1889 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 July 2024}}</ref>
The 14 events were the same number and disciplines as in the previous year.
Henry Tindall set a new world record of 48.5 seconds in the 440 yards event. {{clear}}
== Results == <ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=5 July 2024}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |- !width=100|Event !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:gold;|Gold !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:silver;|Silver !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:#CD7F32;|Bronze |- |100 yards | Ernest Pelling || 10.4 | Monte Billimore || 1 yd | J.F. Veneer||1 yd |- |440 yards | Henry Tindall|| 48.5 WR | Ernest Pelling|| 6-7 yd | Ernest Fryer|| 1 ft |- |880 yards | Henry Tindall|| 1.56.4 | Thomas Pitman|| 12 yd | G.H. Pillin||5 yd |- |1 mile | James Kibblewhite|| 4.29.9 | Walter Uriah Churley|| 4.31.6 | {{flagicon|SCO}} David Duncan||4.32.4 |- |4 miles | Sidney Thomas|| 20.31.8 | Charles Rogers||20.39.6 | J.R. Hainsworth||20.56.4 |- |10 miles | Sidney Thomas|| 51.31.4 | James Kibblewhite||51.40.4 | Harold Wade||54.34.8 |- |steeplechase | Thomas White|| 11.34.4 | S. Jones||20 yd | only 2 finished|| |- |120yd hurdles | Cecil Haward||16.4 | Charles Daft|| inches | Sherard Joyce||1 yd |- |7 miles walk | William Wheeler||56.29.4 | Harry Curtis||57.00.2 | W. Curtis||57.22.4 |- |high jump | Thomas Jennings || 1.765 | Cecil Haward||1.715 | B.C. Green||1.600 |- |pole jump | Lat Stones||3.39 | Tom Ray||3.35 | R. Herschell||3.05 |- |long jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Daniel Bulger||6.55 | {{flagicon|SCO}} J. Barbour||6.20 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} P Lawless||6.06 |- |shot put | R.A. Greene & {{flagicon|Leinster}} William Barry ||12.09 | not awarded || | W.E. West||10.87 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|Leinster}} William Barry ||39.62 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} P Lawless||35.22 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} J.P. O'Sullivan||33.22 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:International sports competitions in London Category:1889 in the sport of athletics Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:June 1889 in the United Kingdom